Twin envelop.



Human STaTns PATENT Trice.

JACOB SALLADE, OF MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-IIALF TO BENJAMIN F. JOHNSON, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

TWIN ENVELOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,624, dated February 18, 1902. Application filed November 15, 1901. Serial No. 82,446. (No model.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB SALLADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milton, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Twin Envelops, of which the following is a specification.

The envelop which I have improved is of the twin type, designed to contain offerings in church-service or for other use, in which the special use of the offerings is designated on the separate pockets, and the precise improvement will be set out in the claim appended hereto in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the blank from which the twin envelop is formed. Fig. 2 shows the back of the formed twin envelop with its sealing-flaps open. Fig. 3 shows the same with its sealing-flaps closed. Fig. I shows one of the pockets opened by pinching out the corner at its folded edge. Fig. 5 shows the front of the envelop.

The blank is of square form, the horizontal edge of the back fold 1 having recesses 2 2 and the edge of its front fold 3 having the gummed sealing-flaps 4: at, each of a semicircle, so that in folding the blank on a mediate line 5 its recessed edge will be on the line at which the sealing-flaps are folded, with the edge of each recess struck from the center of each sealing-flap. At its vertical edges the sealing-flap part has gummed laps 6 6, while from the meeting of the sealing-flaps at their folding-line is placed a transverse gummed line 7, extending to the mediate folding-line 5, so that when the blank is folded its front and back parts will be fastened together by this moistened gummed line which divides the envelop into two equal parts. The side edge laps 6 being then sealed form a pocket for each sealing-flap part, so that when the flaps are sealed the two pockets are con1- pletely closed. The edge recesses 2 are for convenience in opening the mouths of the pockets for placing the coin within their open ends, and, if desired, these pockets can be torn apart on a line 8 coincident with the meeting-point 9 of the sealing-flaps and mediately of the width of the division gummed line 7, leaving each pocket a closed part.

Vhen used for separate church-oiferings,

it may be desired to retain the envelops to show the amount of the oiferingin each pocket,

and in such case the least mutilation of the envelop is desirable. For this purpose each pocket of the envelop may be separately opened at the folded edge 5 instead of at the flap sealed edge by means of a line of perforations 10 starting from the folded edge and pinching out of the corner of the pocket gives a free delivery like a pouring-nozzle, so that a part only of the seed may be poured out.

It will be noted that when the pockets are torn apart the gummed line will close the perforated corner of each part and that the pinching out of the perforated corner is the only mutilation required to open the envelop.

It is important to note that the perforated line 10 in its crossing relation to the gummed line 7 and to the perforated line 8 in their relation to the pair of envelops joined on the gummed line gives the advantage of tearing out the corner of the contiguous envelop,while leaving the pair of envelops connected to show the removal of the inclosure from one only.

This is especially important in accounting for the separate collections and retaining the rec- 0rd of the empty envelop.

I claim- The within-described duplex envelop hav- 9o ing two intersecting lines of perforations-one line dividing the pair, the other line crossing the dividing-line and terminating alike at the edge on each side of the dividing-line in form ing contiguous separable corners, a gummed line closing each envelop at the dividing-line of perforations and at the joining of the separable corners.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB SALLADE. Witnesses:

WM. 0. MILLER, J. B. WILH LM.

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